Video: Police chase spans several cities, ends with crash in Auburn

KOMO Staff

Published 9:02 pm, Tuesday, March 13, 2018

A person who led several police officers on a long chase across the South Sound was finally cornered and arrested near Auburn on Tuesday afternoon.

The ordeal began around 1:15 p.m. when a Seattle police officer spotted a man he believed was a suspect in a Sunday shooting outside a motel in North Seattle, according to Sean Whitcomb of the Seattle Police Department.

The officer tried to pull over the vehicle in the 4400 block of Fourth Avenue South, but the driver sped off, Whitcomb said.

The chase weaved south of Seattle and eventually moved onto state Route 167. The suspect exited the freeway at South 277th Street in Auburn and headed onto side streets.

Video from King County's Guardian One helicopter showed the driver making several erratic turns as he weaved in and out of traffic on side streets, at times dangerously passing school buses and cutting through business parking lots.

At one point, the chase entered a cul-de-sac at South 290th Street and 37th Avenue South.

A video provided by a neighbor in the area shows the truck striking a number of police cars as it tried to get free, then speeding off with obvious damage to the truck.

Photos from the scene showed two minivans parked in driveways suffering damage during the melee, along with several deep tire tracks in the front yards.

Some of the damaged cars and lawns after a police chase visited an Auburn cul-de-sac.

The chase continued until a Seattle police officer caught up to the truck on a straightaway and conducted a PIT maneuver, spinning the truck into oncoming traffic where it struck another vehicle in the 5700 block of South 277th Street.

The suspect again tried to drive away as more police vehicles swarmed in and smashed into the truck, finally bringing it to a stop. Whitcomb said officers did use an "application of force" to subdue their suspect.